The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary.

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

Hope will break your heart all over again.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.