The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.