How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

Patience is the mother of joy.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.

Without Your Opponent, You are no Victor.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Expediency often silences justice.

It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

I see through my eyes, not with them.