"The hard part is getting to the top of page 1."

“Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.”

“[Leonardo DiCaprio] is so cool. He was one of the coolest, down-to-earth people that I think I've ever met. I've never experienced meeting someone like that, [who could] just be so cool and down-to-earth and welcoming.”

“Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.”

“We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.”

“Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.”

Source : "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 285), 1977.

“The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

Source : 1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

“Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.”