All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.
For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.
The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.