The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
There are wounds that never heal, only transform.
"A well-written biography is a resurrection of the past."
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
Architecture is a dialogue between the past and the future.