An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed.
Nothing amazes me anymore.
The boiling water that does not cool down only dries out!
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some ki...