There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

But on second thought after I decreed the state of emergency I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.