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

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

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.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.