Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

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.

The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.

The smile she felt cross her face probably could be seen from outer space, it was so large.

Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?