"There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last"

“Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

“New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.”

Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

“I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.”

“I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.”

Source : Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

“Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.”

“The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.”

“In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.”

Source : "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.