Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

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

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

I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

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

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.