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.

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.

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.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!