You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

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

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.

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

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life