“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.”
“Discussion keeps a house alive. It cannot stand by bricks and mortar alone.”
“A brick could be used to save humanity from mortality. Or at least save us from mortar. ”
“A brick could be used to keep your sandwich pressed down, so your meat doesn't spill out. ”
“I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made up of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.”
“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.”