You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

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.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.