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'.

Culture is that which, for the average person, appears to be remote, hovers over, and humiliates him.

Culture is that upon whose reflection we obtain a larger reservoir of ways of knowing.

Culture is tasked, as its primary function, to harness and control energy.

A Culture is not a scientific object. It is produced historically and is actively contested.

Custom is a tyrant.

Custom is king over all.

Custom is powerful — there is no way to erase the unwritten law.

Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools