A house is a machine for living in.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

I've waited almost 10 months for this revenge, I know I deserve it.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.