In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?

Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery.

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

There are thousands of paths to God and every one gets you there.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.