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

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.

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

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

Reduce the influence of religion upon your life.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

I hope to enjoy however many days I have on this beautiful Earth and spend as much of it outside as I can surrounded by those I love.

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.