We do pretty much whatever we want to.

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.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I love you so much?

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.

You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

Without trees, mountains, fogs or rains, the Sun cannot create its own magic!

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.