The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

Community is, as the very heart of civilization, the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Community is grounded in this idea — It is your concern when the wall next door is on fire.

Community is grounded in dialogue — it comes as a result of folks talking 'to' one another instead of 'about'.

Habit is the invisible architecture of daily life.

Habit is that into which uncertainty disappears.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Inheritance shouldn't be counted on — A fool who waits for dead men's shoes is barefoot long.

Inheritance is plagued by a tricky motivational structure — He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

Inheritance is morally suspect — The tears of an heir are masked laughter.

Inheritance is a promoter of animosity — the rich, like pigs, they're appreciated only after their death.