I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.