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.

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

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

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.