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

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.

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.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Silence is a chameleon that is colored by its surrounding circumstances

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

My drive is something that I don't fully understand.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.