There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I just predicted the future, Small talk = Short Term Relationships.

Dont trust in life and expect that it will betray you in any time

I don't mind getting older

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

There are no friends at cards or world politics

I can only hope that whatever image people might have of either me or Bill, they will hold in advanced until they have an opportunity to meet us.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.