"It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it"
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"