One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

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.

A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.

One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.