In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.