The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Thom Mayne

Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.

W.G. Sebald

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Toni Morrison

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Temple Grandin

You may think you are a good person hanging out with the wrong crowd, but to someone watching, the difference is not noticeable.

Steve Maraboli

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

Ronald Reagan

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Oscar de la Renta

Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.

Anonymous

For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

Cam Neely