Philanthropy is activism.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.