The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.