Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I think you never stop learning.

Tonight, can we just pretend that you want me too?

Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.

In summers, after 1 hour of extreme gaming you can use your laptop to iron your shirt.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.