New things are always ugly.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.