To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

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?

[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.

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.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

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