Sustainability has become an ornament.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.

Man confesses God forgives

The argument could be made that the word hero is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.