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

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

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

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.

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

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.