"Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant."

"I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness."

"My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'"

"Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world."

"I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history."

"I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty."

"Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!"

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."