A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

A master passion is the love of news.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Surround yourself with people smarter than you.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.