Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

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

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

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

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.