Even a brick wants to be something

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.