The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.

Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life.

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.