To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

And what did the North Star tell the Moon last night? He said "I love you!

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.