The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.

Don't be afraid of being different, be afraid of being the same as everyone else.

The market is always changing, only by insisting on quality can we remain invincible.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.