Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Remembering and ForgettingYou have not forgotten to remember

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.