I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
You cannot live with guilt.
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
. . . I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. — Let each man hope & believe what he can. —
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.