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.

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

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.