All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

We find happiness doing what we love.

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

What makes me say "wow" is usually something I haven't encountered, in a new way... something I haven't encountered before or something I have encountered that I see in a new way.