If you do not breathe through writing if you do not cry out in writing or sing in writing then don't write because our culture has no use for it.

After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

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.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

Anger becomes limiting restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there look at that too. But after a while you have to look at something else.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.