The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are.

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

Even if your world seems to be falling apart, you can be confident in that you are in His hand of grace.

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

Everything I do is to become better, the best ever and I'm not going to stop.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.