My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.

If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

I'm addicted to chocolate. I used to snort cocoa.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.