Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

t's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a 'celebrity'.

Everybody has their own soul.