The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.