The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

I don't like going to the gym.

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.