To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

There is a sacred time, when the soul desire to know the spirit.

Oh mommy! You are my world, my love. I am your little boy, and I stole your heart.

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say, ‘You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.