Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!

You have to learn when it’s best to delegate those hard physical jobs to others while you tackle the heavy thinking.

They are many wounded hearts here. Many! Some admit. Others - the stubborn ones, scribble poetry instead.

To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.