To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

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.

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

To be weird! That is my goal!

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.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.