To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

There are worse prisons than words.

While you are serving someone else, God is working out your future

Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?" -

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.