Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

In this life you have obstacles.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.