I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.

My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing.

Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.