You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.