When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

The most effective weapon is love.

All paradises are there to be expelled from.

Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.