I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

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.

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

Keep your head high and your skirt down.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.