Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Baseball has all the money.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

I just made my album. I did my best, and I uploaded the video just at YouTube. That was all.