Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

When you fight with God, your warring against your pride.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.