My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

Freedom is free from fears, choice of faith.

You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

When you believe, it activates God's power.

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.