If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

My buildings are more famous than me.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

I like English parks.

What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.