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

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.

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

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

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.

Long live the dead because we live in them.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no one's been really doing them.

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.

On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.