Men have been buying my women's coats for years.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.