One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

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

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.