I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

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.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?

Surround yourself with positive people who ignite your energy and spirit.

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

There's no such thing as other people's children.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

I did not have a reputation to defend.