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

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

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.