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

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

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

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Architecture is art, nothing else.