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

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.