But what if we are dealing with fools?

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.

Some teach youwhat can't be taught, by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.

There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.