“Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.”

I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

I’m not an expert, but I want to be.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

When I left school I went on trip around the world – I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It’s probably one of my big regrets in life.

I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.

I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you’re able to grasp what things mean.

If you’re into architecture and you’re from the West, everything is hors d’oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you’re led there. You can’t escape it.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

In the highs and the lows, he is there through it all.

Everything has being through the love of God.

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

So I throw my life in your hands, it was always yours anyway.

The religious soul finds in the heart of Jesus a secure refuge.

I didn’t want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us – I was the middle child – and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.