That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.

You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.