Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

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.

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

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.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb.

The most unbearable moments, seeing your dear one crying and you cannot hold her because it is not allowed.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.