God is in the details.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.

The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.

Donald Trump is interesting to people. He's intriguing. But they want to see that Donald Trump in the White House. And he's getting there and he's going to pivot there.