My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet I like to be in their company.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Life is obsession and so is reading :D

You have only one life! Take a chance, make a change, and live!

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

The country crowd just has fun.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.