Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.

That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world.

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

Regrets don't help anything.