"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past."

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."