Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.