A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
A brick could be crushed into powder, like cocaine, and snorted to stimulate the previous highs of the housing market.
Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.
I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.
Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.
To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.
...it's fat women who are really beautiful. The fatter the better.
