The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

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.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

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