The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.