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

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.

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.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

God never fails. No matter how long it takes, the promise will be fulfilled.

We live to work.Man was made to move.Without work we shall grow old quickly.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

There are no small sins against a great God

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.