If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

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.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

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.

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

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.