A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet