The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.