“We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.”

“Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.”

“What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years....”

“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and...”

“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”

“Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”

“(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, becau...”

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could b...”

“How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century.”

“Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's suppose...”

“My ship the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say was because of the events you will read about in this account. This is a long letter, I know, but I had quite a long time...”

“An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.”