I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

I was brought up to reuse things.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

All clients think that they are architects.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

We'll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don't know where those little things will come from but we'll continue to be diligent on them.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.