A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right?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

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

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.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.