I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

The future of architecture is culture.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Concrete you can mold you can press it into after all you havent any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture Youd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you as it were.

My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow.

Without stones there is no arch.

A great idea is not enough.

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

The white hot publicity that came from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

'Longmire' is an incredibly hard shooting schedule because the locations are usually an hour away every morning, and I come home every weekend. I fly back to L.A. for about 26 hours a weekend, just to touch base back at home. It's a lot of work. It's four really intense months.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.