Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

Glibness will get your anywhere.