My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Timeliness is best in all matters.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.