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.

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.

I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.