Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary