That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

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

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

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

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.