"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

“What did my arms do before they held you?”

“When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.”

Source : Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art

“I want to be inside Nic Pizzolattos brain.”

Source : "Michelle Monaghan Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Joining the Show, Working with Cary Fukunaga, the Mood on Set, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2014.

“Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.”

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.”

“The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.”

“Often you have to rely on your intuition.”