You have to be tough and stand your ground.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

The best defense is a good story.

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.