A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.