There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

Nature is only another chimera.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

The object is that which is objected against me.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

Never laugh at your wife’s choices… you’re one of them

I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.