To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.