"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."

“It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.”

“I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.”

“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isnt really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.”

Source : "Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life" by Laura Allsop, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2011.

“Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.”

“When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.”

“I think one of my highpoints was definitely well, everything started turning around on Barry Manilow week. I had so much fun on disco week, love disco music. I think I picked some songs that really worked for me and people really enjoyed them. I loved doing the Donna Summers song and she was the guest judge, and she was the guest judge and I felt honored. She said she loved the song and said I made it my own.”

“A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.”

Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

“To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.