Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.