“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.”

“There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.”