“Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.”
“Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.”
“a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.”
“Dreams shape the world”
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.”