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."

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.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.