Of all actions of a mans life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people. – John Selden
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because thats how it was in those days. – Erika Slezak
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. – Alvar Aalto
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille
We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986
