Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

History is the siren song of the soul.