The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity has a subtext: it asserts the value of instrumentality. Its design is a reflection of its role... The anonymity of these objects is part of what they are: interchangeable commodities whose uniqueness in so far as they possess any is created by what is done with them. Function is an identity. And that identity is something we are encouraged to incorporate into our perception of self, that anonymity is proposed as something to emulate. Whimsy and uniqueness are indulgences.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.