"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."

"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."

"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."

"It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China."

"Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level."

"I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well."