I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.