Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.