Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

In my dreams, " said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman." ~Con

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.