Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
It is better to be good than to be original.
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Each material is only what we make it.
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.