I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Prison house for the soul

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

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.