Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

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.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.