In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Fear can force obedience, but it can never transform a heart.

Now Robby…he’s who you should be with, ” she said, as if on cue with my thoughts. I tried not to roll my eyes.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.