The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.