My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

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

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

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

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.