When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.

The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.