There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

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.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

We're physiologically wired differently.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.