You've got to like the people you work with.
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.