Philip Johnson
US architect (1906 - 2005)
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.