Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

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.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.