My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.

Jack might look my age, but he was like a little kid on a sugar high --- in need of a good spanking. --- Good heavens, that sounded creepy.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)