Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin...

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life…

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

You know,” he added reflectively, “we’ve got a much easier job now than we should have had fifty years ago. If we’d had to modernise a country then it would have meant constitutional monarchy, bicameral...

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.