The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Even a brick wants to be something

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

A person must cultivate their personal tutelary spirit in order to achieve their ultimate visage.

I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.

Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.