I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Our strong spirit will survive every situation

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.