Each view has a history. You sense you're where others have been. — Amit Chaudhuri

The eye covers distances in a second. It lusts for freedom. Looking out, I often wanted to be free - not of home, but of the city. The eye (if it's gazing upon something it's unhappy with, as I was) might see nothing. Looking up is different. I have the freedom I then wanted.

Some books I buy for their title, others for brevity. I love short books - the way you know from the first page that it's going to end.

History is always lying before you, unnoticed: till you suddenly see it, as we do now.