"To write is to breathe, to live, to exist."

"Grief is not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. It is a circle, and you come back, again and again, to the same place."

The best buildings are those that tell a story, that have a soul.

The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.

You're in control, is there anywhere you wanna go?

The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all power.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.