I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

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.

Stories give color to black and white information.

If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.