The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

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.

The Lord is my shelter.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite.

Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening of the shell so the soul may emerge.