The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Life is more important than architecture.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

I've got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can't do it alone. With your help, with God's grace, we can save the idea of America before it's too late.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

I dont really enjoy watching reality TV.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.

I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.