Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

The players must be at the centre of their industry.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.