An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars

Find me. Seduce me. I want to be in love with you.

But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.