Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

I think that we all drown, in one way or another.

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

I do love wearing heels but my feet can't be in them all day long. I want to have fun and dance so I need to be comfortable.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.