If There Is One Lesson Rome Teaches,

Rome Is All Things High And Low. It Is Like God, It Accommodates So Much.

It's The Perpetually Unfinished Quality Of Housework That Makes It Oppressive - It Never Ends, Like Bad Psychoanalysis, Or A Dream Interrupted. It Is Paradoxically True That It Is Exactly This Daily Re-creation Of The World That Lends Housekeeping Its Nobility And Romance.

I Love Cloisters, Which Are The Architectural Equivalent Of A Theological Concept: Perfect Freedom Within Set Boundaries.

Porches Are America's Lost Rooms.

There Are No Original Ideas. There Are Only Original People.