“Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.”

“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”

“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”

“If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.”

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again”

“Every eye makes its own perception.”

“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.”

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

“Between the lines thoughts were felt. In a way words could never read.”