Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.