Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.