Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

I've been a sports fan forever.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.