Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.