The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

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.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made, With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

Every President hates the Press.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.