As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! - Carol

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

Everyone has their wings, it just so happens that mine are black.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.