Peter Brooks Quotations

I don't think we should turn a blind eye to these important issues just because we are dealing with the nuclear issue.

It is not the role of the Planning Board to design the project. It is not the role of the Planning Board to supervise construction.

But the other thing is the question are you willing to take the first punch, and how big a punch would that be ...? Could it be an explosion of a nuclear or dirty bomb or the use of chemical or biological weapons, and are you willing to live with that. That is the challenge for policy makers and it is no small challenge.

We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.

Everything is possible but you must find your own way. So, if you look at my work and think, 'Ah there is an example, I will start by what he's done', you are bound to go wrong. Because the work that I do today is the result of all the work that I've done through trial and error, in changing times.

Coincidentally, we found out later that our Perkins Street house was also designed by the Bakewell Brown firm. In fact, it was the house Arthur Brown had built for his own family's residence.

They're in Britain. They don't want to be British and they hate us. I say we should sling them all out.

Good taste ruled every detail, ... When the curtain rose, we were drawn out of the everyday world into a world of grace and beauty where charming people with not-too-intense feelings played out unreal situations that never reflected the crude realities of life.