All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.