One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

Unfortunately, on my father's side we have a nonexistent relationship. But my mother and sister and I live very closely, we remain in the same city and we see each other every day.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.