Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

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