Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day

When the image is new, the world is new.

I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.