“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.”

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”

“Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.”

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”