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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

It's natural that I want to recreate a home.

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.