Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.