I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.

My favorite project is always the next one.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.