It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I transform fiction into memory.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.