It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

My buildings are more famous than me.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

I like English parks.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a fan.

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.