From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.