When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

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.

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

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.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Passion is the feeling of excitement, energy and enthusiasm you feel towards something or someone you care about.

No matter how much you love someone, time heals your pain and your death wish.

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

Not only am I better looking.. I'm just plain better.