I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

When Death laughs, no one else does

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel.

Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.