Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

What you hate the most, stays with you, while the loved ones walk away.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.