I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

I'm not focused on being perfect. I like trial and error. You learn through uncomfortable experiences. And now I know what doesn't work for me, and I know what does.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

I phoned the local ramblers club today and this bloke just went on and on.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun