I do not write, I build.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there.

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

I find there are usually no extremes in relationships, even friendship. One is not always right or never wrong.

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Usually when Obama says, 'Let me be clear,' he's about to get into some very unclear sh*t.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.