Peter Zumthor Quotes
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
Quotes to Explore
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
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Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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H. E. Butler's translation:
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Why should I go to the States to do a film I wouldn't consider in Europe, just because it's English-speaking?
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Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
