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

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.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.

The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

One does not consider style, because style is.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.