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

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.

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

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.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

Focus on Being Productive Instead of Busy.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.