Order Quotes

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment.

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.

The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

I guess when I’m frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I’ve tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems?