The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.

A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

In this game you only lose when you fight back

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.