No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
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...
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.