Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point

Nicola would have to speak up, Jacob would have to shut up, and he would have to man up.

Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.