There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

The future of architecture is culture.

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.

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

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.