Life is more important than architecture.

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

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

Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

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

Architecture is invention.

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.