I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
Parsons are soules waggoners.
You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.
It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.