Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.