The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.