If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Even a brick wants to be something

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.