A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right?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

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.

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

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

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.

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

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."