Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

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.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

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

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

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

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.