I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.