Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

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

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.