I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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

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

Architecture is art, nothing else.

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

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.