The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

Architecture aims at Eternity

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary, somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.