Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Words and actions will separate a wise man from the crowd.

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

My wife is cool enough to let me write about personal things, to be a songwriter exploring the shadowy sides of love.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

Dude, you're a vampire. EVERY day sucks for you.

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.