Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Don’t wait for people to celebrate you before you celebrate them

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

They tell you the devil is in the details…what they don’t tell you is that he’s laughing maniacally.

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

Speech is the small change of silence.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Thank God for Redbull and fake eyelashes.