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.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

Even things that are true can be proved.

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.