“Although they're often associated with period properties, shutters loo...” — George Clarke Quote

“Although they're often associated with period properties, shutters look the part in all types of homes and I love them!”

“Everyone wins if you buy an ugly house. The people who buy it win because they have got something at a much lower price than the nicest house on the street. They have a chance of making their own mark and making it personal, rather than paying more to buy someone else's taste.”

“We do have some beautiful houses in Britain, but we do have some pretty ugly ones as well, and I always think that every house has the potential to be amazing.”

“I never use the 'C' word - which for me is 'Celebrity.' I don't want to be a celebrity. I want to be a good architect. I want to make and craft really beautiful programmes that people love watching.”

“You can't lay bricks in the snow or rain. We still use wet plaster on walls which might not dry for a week if it's frosty. The way we build houses today is unbelievably inefficient. Ridiculously inefficient. Gas technology has moved on, but building is still in the dark ages. We still build houses the way the Romans did.”

“I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.”

“It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.”

“Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.”

“I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.”

“I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.”

“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”