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.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

To be weird! That is my goal!

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

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

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

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