With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

I always try to think in curves.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

It’s never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that’s exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray.

I'm getting pretty worried. My girlfriend hasn't gotten her period. And she's already 14.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

Dreams show you that you have the power.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.