New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.

The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.