In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.

It's not a traditional America anymore.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

We will expand the number of border patrol stations significantly.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.