In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I am light and stardust in his hands.

When we were still living in the world of sin God already saw us as saved citizens of His kingdom

I do not expect to see home again.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.