Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we’re hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely—at our own choice.

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves.

Enough is equal to a feast.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.