My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Pray, which day is not a women's day!?!

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment.

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.