I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

You create attention to attract attention.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.