The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering