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

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

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.