Glibness will get your anywhere.

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.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

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

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

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.