In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.