Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

Often, it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Another reality about relationships is that they are never static. All of us experience changes in relationships but a few stop to analyse why a relationship gets better or worse.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.