The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.