“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.

I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn’t far behind in a way.

By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn’t going to do that, and I certainly wasn’t about to let my girls do it. After all, I’m religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.