It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Man is a vile creature!

All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.