Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

I hate walking up to strangers.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!