The kind of building we were looking for was his philosophy. We want so much happening in this building that it will be vibrant day and night.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!