When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Life is more important than architecture.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?”“Oh no, Ron, ” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.