Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.