For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.

Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.