When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

I was brought up to reuse things.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

All clients think that they are architects.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean you want a secretary or something?""No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Men weigh love with hands.

My back slams against the oven door, and I cover my face and cry. I cry so hard I can't breathe.

I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

As we look forward to the New Year, let's resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.