The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

Today like every day roughly 5, 000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.