One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days