The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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.
The record shows, I took the blows. And did it my way.
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind
…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.