The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

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.

Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.

Man struggles to survive, not to succumb

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.