Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

My buildings are more famous than me.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

I like English parks.

People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cashing in, suddenly the promise loses all value.

I may not have wings, but my hands do a better job in wiping away the tears anyway.

Never make decisions you will live to regret later in the near future.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.