"I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things."

"I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world."

"But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance."

"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."

"I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me."

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."

"All philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it."