Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I think you never stop learning.

Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

You can get hurt at any time.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.