Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

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

One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.