Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.

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.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

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