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.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

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.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.