We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

The happening that happened was that I met this girl.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.