Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind – A Tale of Two Cities

Meaning vs Experience – The whole idea of my architecture is about stopping any communication and placing within architecture itself a device that causes you to react emotionally, physically, and intellectually. Without representation. My architecture means nothing. But the experience is something else. – Peter Eisenman

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means. – The Name of the Rose

Is that boulder heavy?  Not if you don’t pick it up —- Ajahn Chah

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right — Henry Ford

And, of course, people are only interested in themselves.  If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.  And here I make a rule — a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last.  The strange and foreign is not interesting — only the deeply personal and familiar — John Steinbeck