Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now let alone any more is well known.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights but I will climb alone.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.