Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

I am what you made me, Father.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.