There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us...

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.

Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.