The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

I don't have a problem with a world full of vampires and zombies but with one where the law forbids me from shooting them.

Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.