I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!