The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Many are called but few get up.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.