Every truth goes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

The past is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Every building should have a story, a story that comes from its environment and history.

Writing is a way of resisting forgetting.