History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.
Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
what is not true does not exist in this moment.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
art is risk made visible
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...