When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

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!

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.

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

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 tragedy of life is when you do not know what to do with time

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Be an instrument of redemption, there are still unreached people

A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time!

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.

There is even the dignity of vice.

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed