Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Main Street is almost alright.

Ka was a wheel

We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.