Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

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.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

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.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.