Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.