Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

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.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.