"Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises."

“In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.”

“It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.”

“I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”

“I think love is blind. You don't see it, you don't hear what people are saying, or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.”

“After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.”

Source : At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, December 11, 1945. "Nuremberg Diary" by Gustave Gilbert, p. 66, 1947.

“The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.”

“Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?”