I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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.
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death.
There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.