Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.