“It is alright to decorate construction but never construct decoration.”
“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.”
“Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
“The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.”