Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life.

What was it with evildoers trying to hire my boyfriend as a mercenary?

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

If you are persistent, you will succeed