Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

There were poets before Homer.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.