It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.It sounded like a revolution.It sounded like hope.

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!""Well, I am, " said Sal. "So can we go... please?

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.