When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Conjugation of the irregular verb “to design”:I create, You interfere, He gets in the way.We cooperate, You obstruct, They conspire.

Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.