Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Science explains the how.Philosophy explains the why.Free-thinkers need both.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

His real name is A.J., but he is known in Heaven as Armor because of how resilient he is in his faith and how persistent he is with his prayers.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have the strength or the stamina to make America great again. Believe me.

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.