I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Art is science made clear.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.