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

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

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

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.