People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

In the fall of leaves, In the hustle of breeze, In the curve of streams, I foresee, Nature keeps more concealed, Than it lets us peep!

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.