I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.