We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

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

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

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.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.