I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

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.

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

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.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.