Dwight Chapin Quotes

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House.

My bedroom's like an armoury.

A man's house is his castle.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

I live in a bubble.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

For a man's house is his castle.

I have here [at the White House] company enough, part secretly hostile and a constant succession of strangers.

The White House seems to be a sound-proof booth.

I see the White House as like a subway. You have to put coins in to open the gates.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

I prefer to travel by jeep, because you can see everyone clearly, and everyone can see you. Also, people are not able to come close to you easily when you are in a jeep.

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

When I'm inside the cage, nobody will take anything away from me.

I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace