When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

To order space is to give it meaning.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

I am always learning, always discovering.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?”He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.

Little else matters than to write good code.

The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The right man can make a good job out of any job.