I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying.

Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

But I absolutely believe that 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.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

Writing is a craft not an art.