Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."