A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again.

People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Sometimes we have to stop being being scared and just go for it.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

There is not a special place in Hell for people who didn't support Sarah Palin. Do you know what I mean? It's ridiculous. And there is certainly not a special place in Hell for women who don't support Hillary Clinton.

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

J.Crew's a great brand.

Yeah, I guess everyone's had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others.

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend youre in this vulnerable state where youre still kind of half in the relationship with them but youre single and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.