The door handle is the handshake of the building.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

I dwell in the city and the city dwells in me.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.