In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Even a brick wants to be something

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

I try to hold my charisma in check.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.