“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some ple...” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quote

“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”

“Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”

“Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest of the place, out west and east from the north-south I-5 river) can sometimes feel like a half-dream, half-myth.”

“People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.”

“Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.”