You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.