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.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

You've got to like the people you work with.

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

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."