The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and….

I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildin….

I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything about hippydom I ha….

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which ….

I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being….

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a c….

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture..

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more….

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people..

In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by mak….

I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the….

As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it's all basically done by hand. I know nothing about computers. I d….

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writ….

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the rank….

I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its….

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say..

As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stu….

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, w….

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative ….

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wou….

I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to ….