"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed ... See MoreSee Less

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest ... See MoreSee Less

"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."
- Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks ... See MoreSee Less

"Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities ... See MoreSee Less

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
- Le Corbusier ... See MoreSee Less

"On a clear bright day even the softness of the sounds is golden."
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ... See MoreSee Less

"A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus ... See MoreSee Less

Mandy! Hurry! The tram's here! ... See MoreSee Less

"The city is the realization of the ancient dream of humanity, the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is also a place where one is lost."
- Michel Foucault ... See MoreSee Less

"The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it, by looking at it."
- Roland Barthes, Semiology and the Urban ... See MoreSee Less

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
- Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina ... See MoreSee Less

"But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect. Vulgarity and stupidity are two very vivid facts in modern life. One regrets them, naturally. But there they are. They are subjects for study, like everything else."
- Oscar Wilde ... See MoreSee Less

"The silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées ... See MoreSee Less

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus ... See MoreSee Less

"And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land ... See MoreSee Less