No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!