"I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents."

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."

"Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not."

"There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox."

"I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated."

"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."

"My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere."

"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat."