The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

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.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.