Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior 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.

- You may always talk to me, honey... - Started suddenly bright white moon. - The stars are too young to give you a wise advice, yet.

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.