When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.