“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.”

“When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.”

“Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.”

“You did it... now you should pay... that's how the world works.”

“The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.”

“Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.”