There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

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.

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Do you love her?' she asked him.'Always have, ' he said.'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?

God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.