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.'

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.

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

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.

Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!