All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

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.

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

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

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?

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

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.