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.

Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?

Architecture is invention.

When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

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

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

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