None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

If everything was perfect in your life won't it be a predictable one. Life is unpredictable chaotic and madness but that's what makes life interesting won't you agree?

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

I'm going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored.

Brand is not what you say it is. It’s what they say it is.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.