“In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.”

“There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.”