I always try to think in curves.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

You story must be best told by you. Your experience is a sacred life.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.

Persistence is the mother of personal change

I would only date a 15 year old high school girl.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.