Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Fear is the bane of all creatures that bubbles inside us forming rocks of resistence, sucking away all will power to act, think or speak.

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Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.