It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.