I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.
Imagine what we could accomplish if our dreams were bigger than our fears
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
We're friends, and we're both friends with actresses our age, but we never get to work with each other because there's one girl in the movie, or whatever. For me, it was just so amazing to get to work with Evan [Rachel Wood], who I've loved forever.