My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

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.

Your mind is the most powerful thing in your control.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

With the American failure came world failure.

Hey, ugly!" Annabeth yelled. I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me.

Movies bore me; especially my own.

He is the best passer of a ball in the world, and Real's style fits him. (on David Beckham)

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.