I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of Im listening.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

Pondering which means to weigh mentally to deliberate to meditate can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of ones understanding.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mothers singing.

Im not really a control freak but... can I show the right way to do that

The Army's always had a special place in my heart.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

We love doing commercial and TV show work.

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!