Less is a bore.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Less is a bore.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

I've been boogie-boarding, off and on, since I was a kid. But I started being devoted to the cause of getting up every morning to surf, when I'm in Los Angeles, about a decade or so ago.

I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.

For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support cultures and the remaining biological sanctuaries.

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

War is a contagion.

I believe that breast cancer will soon become something we live with rather than die from

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness