I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

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.

They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her pay.

I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.