I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

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.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

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.