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.

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.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

I'm really into fashion.

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10 inspiration and 90 perspiration.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Always remember that striving and struggling precede success, even in the dictionary.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

No world championship has been easy for me.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

Happiness is on the way.

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.