"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

"Less is more."

"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

"It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait."

"Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run."

"If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying."

"There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives."