I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.