I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.