He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The past is not what it was.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.