Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like… like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it?

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.