Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

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.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

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.

The future of architecture is culture.