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

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

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.