If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I think you never stop learning.

Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Tore up from the floor up. Followed by a big outtie. John Mathew

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really.

As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself.