No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

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.

Marriage is about love, not gender.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

I've always wanted to act.

Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.