“Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting taunts. My ship Lilith. London's winter cold and dark. The smell of ground sliced open in… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise. — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“This will become the story of a young woman, Karin Weinbrenner. Her story is not mine, but sometimes her story feels like the armature… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed? — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly afraid she was going to climb the rail and leap into the sea. But maybe she wasn't. Maybe it was a… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“I don't want to lose you over tedious genealogy and history that must be very dim to you. This is a story of real… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.” — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if I had been able to put things in plain language, it might have been plain that things between us were so damnably… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“When we were apart and I thought of her, I left words out of it. What came to mind instead were flashes of bold… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.” — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
