Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
I wrote a great deal of a novel, Winter’s Tale, on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then …
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: Jeanette Winterson
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. ―Jeanette Winterson, Oranges …
Quote for Today: John Updike
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when …
Quote for Today: P.S. Baber
“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much …
Quote for Today: Robert Green Ingersoll
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depths; …