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

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

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.

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.

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.