The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Life is composed of lights and shadows,and we would be untruthful,insincere,and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

Architecture must be flexible to survive.

Science is not just about finding answers, but also about asking the right questions.