The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone..

Must being in love always mean being in pain?.

We should not be frightened by appearances..

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identifie….

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy..

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being rem….

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space..

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting..

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most..

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful ….

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves..

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as t….

Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers ….

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad..

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable ….

There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display o….

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds..

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts..

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, ….

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things..