Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.