The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

Ghosts have a way of misleading you

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.