The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

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.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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.

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.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

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