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

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.

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

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

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

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.