I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Don’t keep those people in your life who are completely negative in approach. Eventually these people will stress you out and be the source of your downfall.

If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.