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

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

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.

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

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.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

I am always at the beginning.

True art consists in concealing art.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.