Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?

For there is never any way to go but in.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.