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."

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.