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.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

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?

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.