A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

No religion can fully accept another religion, that’s the one belief all religions share

Faith is reason grown courageous.

The profits of good luck are perishable if you build on fortune you build on sand the more advancement you achieve the more dangers you run.

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.