The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

— Fennel Hudson

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

— Amit Kalantri

A grey-suited figure with badly-scuffed shoes was squatted over a woman’s body, obscuring her face and upper torso. A loose, white dress; torn, now mostly red. A pattern of rose petals, drenched in blood. One of her sandals was missing, scarlet streaks and spatters on her jade-green polished toenails and pale, slender ankles. Another step took him around the hunched and twitching figure. It ignored him, intent on its work. Then its victim came fully into view … and he saw her ruined face.

— Scott Kaelen

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!

— Latif Mercado

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

— Jennifer Donnelly

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!

— Latif Mercado

I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

— Latif Mercado

Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?

— Tom McDonough

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

— I.M. Pei

The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.

— Michael Montoure