“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.”

“Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light”

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

“the city is cold and hard like that bike I stole from your front yard.”

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality possessing attributes peculiar to the gods of never having to answer for their actions and never making a mistake. Their wishes must be humbly acceded to. The people may kill, burn, ravage, commit the most frightening cruelties, glorify their hero today and throw him into the gutter tomorrow, it is all the same; the politicians will not cease to vaunt the people's virtues and to bow to their every decision.”

“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.”