What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

I always try to think in curves.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

Life ,for eternal us,is now

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

The smallest errors are always the best.

If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?

A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.