Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.-Macon Ravenwood

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Change is the only constant.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.