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.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

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.

Architecture is art, nothing else.