Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.