From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there l...

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an en...

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is...

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his...

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have...

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails...

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery...

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, t...

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House -...

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slep...

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois....

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're t...