I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

The real battle is within yourself.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more for anyone can save his purse but none can win back lost time.

Now is the only time we own give love toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow for the clock may then be still.

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.