“In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.”

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.”

“In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.”

“I don't believe in morality in architecture.”

“For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school ...”

“The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)”

“At school we learn the theory to do the practice, but they didn't teach you that in real life you learn from the practice to know the theory”

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.”

“I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.”

“Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.”