A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

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.

A house is a machine for living in.

Getting to that place of no thought, is not only a spiritual workout, it is enthused bliss for the soul.

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Identical twins. I'm glad they're identical 'cause you save money on photographs. That's what I like. Yeah. Here's my little boy. I got another one just like it.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.