The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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.

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].