The blank page is the most terrifying and exciting moment in architecture.

There is no such thing as great wisdom in the world, just as there is no such thing as talent. What exists is triviality. If you keep doing repetitive things, you become an expert; if you do repetitive things with special focus, you become a master.

Literature is a fire that burns within us, a fire that consumes and purifies, a fire that illuminates and warms.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.