There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.