I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

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.

I can't come, ' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.''I'll soon teach you again.''O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.

Do you have a formal gown to wear?'I made a face.'Of course not.''What size are you?''Size awesome.'He gave me a blank stare.He didn't get it

She didn't want to talk with Levi. And wasn't that the problem. She wanted to do things that didn't involve any talking. Well, maybe it did if you counted dirty talk.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

Bad times don't last, bad guys do.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.