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

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

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

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