Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

The universe was alive with staccato radio chatter and art and curiosity and wonder and change.

POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.

I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, than there is always beer

Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness.