There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

The future of architecture is culture.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.