It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Respect your dream.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.