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

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

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 haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.