In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Through the anger came something I recognized

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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what’s paying the most money or what’s most popular.

So that makes him, like, your fang granddaddy.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.