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.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

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

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

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.

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