»Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.«

»You cannot avoid beauty in a work of art«, Anselm Kiefer

»Life can't be all that bad, I’d think from time to time. Whatever happens, I can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.«

Reports of the effects of consumption of mandrake are blurred vision, dilation of the pupils, dryness of the mouth, difficulty in urinating, dizziness, headache, vomiting, blushing and a rapid heart rate as well as hyperactivity and hallucinations.

“Second only to the master of us all, Clodia (1) has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.” 
Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March

»All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts...