“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.”

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

God is a verb, not a noun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.

The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.