Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our …
Quote for Today: Markus Zusak
We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The villages were lighting up, constellations that greeted each other across the dusk. And, at the touch of his finger, his flying-lights flashed back a greeting to them. The …
Quote for Today: Anthony Liccione
She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into …
Quote for Today: Alice Munro
A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling …
Quote for Today: Alfred Kazin
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others’ minds. —Alfred Kazin
Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
All I know is that I’ve wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I’d get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But …
Quote for Today: Peter Zumthor
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream …
Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken …