Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, well, it's a bad book. But if an architect makes a bad building, it's a bad life.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.  

最好的音乐来自最黑暗的地方。