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

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

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.

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.

The future of architecture is culture.