“Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen; and there appeared to be a wild inconsistency between its still perfect adaptation of parts, and the crumbling condition of the
individual stones.”

- Edgar Allen Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839)

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”

- M. C. Escher, Dutch artist of impossible architecture (1898 – 1972)

“”But you gotta wait, it takes time
I don’t write I build a rhyme
I draw plans draft the diagrams
An architect in effect and it slams
And if it’s weak when I’m done
Renovate and build another one
I go to work”

- Kool Moe Dee, “I Go To Work” (1989)