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.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.