The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

The earth is definitely doomed.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.