I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

For me, architecture is a social act.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.

Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.