I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

My buildings are more famous than me.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

I like English parks.

Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

I don't need every answer. Just the right answer.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.