I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

Bad stuff happens, people are mean, there are no steps you can take that ensure the world leaves you alone. All you can do is try not to be one of those people who contributes to the bad.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.