I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It’s not where we live, but life itself.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.

No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.