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

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.

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.

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

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.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

I love people, and the hustle.

There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables.

I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.