Will Johnson
Will Johnson
death want architecture
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
art architecture building
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
class want way
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
cities houston building
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
mold riches twists
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
lying next fine
Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.
morning
It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.
calm keep-calm-and-carry-on
Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.
weekend people tradition
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
hockey fighting winning
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
doors wizards next
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
mean shoes issues
Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand.
school aunt people
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.
air guy scary
I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.