I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

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

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

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.

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

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