Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

Burn them all, little dragon.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

People seem to think fighters are lovely people when they meet us. It's 'cause we don't have to prove anything.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

The emanation of what you are is love.

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.