In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.