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

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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 guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

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.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.