Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

Our brain needs comfort. When you irritate it, you cannot think.