I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.