The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.
Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.
Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.
The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.