Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.