I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body