If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

I call architecture frozen music.