I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

Being a woman anywhere is dangerous.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it