Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

A plan concerns your life and your calling

If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.

Karate is not A religion, cult or dogma. It is incumbent on every generation of martial artists, to find the weaknesses of the previous generations, not to revere it . . .

Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

What worries you masters you.

When one door opens, so does another one.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.