"   Lijstjes zijn rituele pogingen systeem aan te brengen in een ongrijpbare en veel te complexe wereld.   "

"   The most important thing about housing is not what it is but what it does in people’s lives.   "

"   - Hey
- Yeah?
- I was wondering… Do you know the difference between love and obsession?
- No
- (…) and what’s the difference between obsession and desire?
- I don’t know
- Do you think this feeling will last forever?
- You mean like… forever ever? Forever ever? Forever ever? Forever ever? […] Sure!
- God, I hope so
- Me too!   "

"   Being creative is not a matter of being novel and different. It is a matter of generating and testing alternatives, of transforming ideas, of using parallel lines of thought, and of accepting
incomplete and possibly conflicting ideas coexisting, without attempting to resolve them too early in
the process.   "

"   Maybe, architecture doesn’t have to be stupid after all. Liberated from the obligation to construct, it can become a way of thinking about anything – a discipline that represents relationships, proportions, connections, effects, the diagram of everything.   "

"   On the one hand I detested him but on the other hand I am an absolute coward.   "