Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.

You can get what you want.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

From SpongeBob to Finding Nemo ... I'm still trying to decide which one I like more.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.