"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."

"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."

"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."

"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."

"Wisdom principle 89 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 77."

"Wisdom principle added 53 tells us that life is lesson 53."

"When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'."

"Sex is emotion in motion."