I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".

To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Those who build are greater than those who tear down.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

Acting means living, it's all I do.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.