Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that.