The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

Glibness will get your anywhere.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

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 practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.