The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

I'm not a betting man.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.