Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.
L’architecture est art de suggestion.
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.
These CEOs, man. . . If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.