When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

Sorry if I can't be the right monster for you Bella.

You never think it’s going to happen to you, do you?

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring.

Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.