Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

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

Architecture is art, nothing else.

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.

Glibness will get your anywhere.