“Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.”

“Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone”

“Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”

“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”

“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the pl...”

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic masters, for we have seen that the rectangle of ...”

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live a life that was strange in many ways, but also much the same as anywhere...”