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.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Women are an alien race set down among us.