A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. – Henry Ward Beecher
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. – Nelson Mandela
When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. – Maurice Sendak
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, thats both liberating and alarming. – Rem Koolhaas
