The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Don't live life as a spectator.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.