If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

We're physiologically wired differently.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

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

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.