Architecture is art, nothing else.

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.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Some people are boys longer than others.

You take all the fun out of life for me, Nik. You know that?" Aiden- Blood Hunger (Deathless Night Series #1)

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.

The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.