Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it was.

He who is not satisfied with himself will not grow certainly, For he will be but ever lost in his unquenchable thirst surely.[224] - 4 (Thoughts)

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are.

In the well-ordered home we may experience a taste of heaven.

On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I'm an advisor on.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.