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

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.