"The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life."

"Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes."

"Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility."

"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."

"Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union."

"There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window."