The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

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.

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

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'm happy, Ahren. I'm a princess. I have everything.""I think you're mistaking comfort for joy.

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Successful people breed success.

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.