Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.