The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.