Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom