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

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.

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.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong.

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."