Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

To be weird! That is my goal!

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.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

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

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.