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Combinatorics is like the art of counting without actually counting.
Every building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
"We think we’re the ones who notice things, but really it’s the things that notice us."
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.
Writing about crime is really writing about society's fractures and failings.
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."
"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."