"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."

"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

"What people want, above all, is order."

"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without."

"When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny."

"But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time."