I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

If 9 out of 10 grandmothers selected from 10 respective cultures can agree it is evil, then it's evil. Cut it out.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008