Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Only job I know well is to spread happiness.

Stand tall like a tower.

My golf is getting better all the time. Today I parred all but sixteen holes.

Flowers are happy things.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.