It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

I loved scary movies growing up.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.