“Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.”

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building…A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

What a delight it is to respect people!

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.