So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life's puzzle.

My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!