Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

I won't date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.