We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint.

I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.