If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past. . . Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.
To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.