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.

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."

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

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

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.