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

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?

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.