Architecture is about public space as much as it is about private space.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

每一次旅程都隐藏着另一段旅程：未选择的路和被遗忘的角度。

I have always liked the idea of not being noticed.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

伟大的沙漠为了绿叶的爱而燃烧，而她摇摇头、笑著、飞走了。

我还以为我有一朵独一无二的花呢，我有的仅是一朵普通的花。这朵花，再加上三座只有我膝盖那么高的火山，而且其中一座还可能是永远熄灭了的，这一切不会使我成为一个了不起的王子。

History is alive in the stories we tell.

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea.