“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“All art is quite useless.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“The difficult whole is more satisfying than the easy unity.”
“The iconography of the everyday is a legitimate source for architecture.”
“I prefer “both-and” to “either-or.””
“Complexity and contradiction are the essence of urban experience.”
“Architecture is the decoration of construction.”
“Ambiguity is the delight and the dilemma of architecture.”
“I like elements which are hybrid rather than “pure,” compromising rather than “clean.””