"I never learn my lesson."

“I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

“I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.”

“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.”

“I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.”

“Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop? Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.”

“I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.”

“Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially”

Source : Erich von Däniken (1999). “Chariots of the gods: unsolved mysteries of the past”, Berkley Pub Group

“There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.”