Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.