Man is nature as much as the trees.

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.