I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

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.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures." Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

For love is sufficient unto love.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.