You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

I am always searching for more light and space.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor nor labor without capital.

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

I could see peace instead of this.

People who want to kill other people are the last people I want to party with, because I get mouthy when I drink.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.