[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

Your true abilities will reveal themselves when you are in a time of trouble.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.