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.

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

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

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

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.