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.

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.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

You look beautiful in your best self.

Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.