Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.