I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask, and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.