So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

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.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

The first loss is the best loss.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

All this has been my fault.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.