“I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full...” — Bernard Tschumi Quote

“I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.”

“When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.”

“The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.”

“A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.”

“'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.”

“Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.”