There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

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.

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

Go with the ebbs and the flows, and allow this non-resistance to guide us to contentment.

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

If we can't get more John Rovnaks in this world, let's all support the John Rovnak we've got.