Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Every girl has a right to be loved.

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.