My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.