You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

A nimble sixpence is better than a slow shilling.

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

What I really do is make portraits of the soul.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.