There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

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.

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

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.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Yaknow you gotta stay up with current s**t, b. I watch the news. I read a lot. All that s**t. Everything helps. You never know it's helping until you start writing and s**t.

I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

Winter in #‎ Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.