The room is the beginning of architecture.

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.

New York has an electronic heart.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.