An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.

But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious" "Like salt and vinegar potato chips" "Exactly

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.

[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.