We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.

Oracle of Delphi:In my deep mystery I breatheyour fragrance swirling inyour odourless soulI return your mysteryrevealing your destiny deep inthe seed of your God Self

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

You're totally hooking up with my brother. I don't care.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.