The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

Martin O'Neill rules with a rod of fear.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.