I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.
Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
