"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."
— Audrey Hepburn

"The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain."
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán (The Palace)

""Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.""
— Rita Gonzalez

"The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible."
— Michael Flynn (Eifelheim)

"Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?"
— V Y Mudimbe

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past."
— Carlos Fuentes (Myself with Others: Selected Essays)

"Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible."
— Augusto Roa Bastos (I, the Supreme)