Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.