Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.