I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

It took me 25 years for me to realize who I am. Now I'm going to use the next 75 years to focus on how I want to be remembered. One quarter down, three to go!

Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.