Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Marriage is an excercise in learning our flaws everyday

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.