I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright..

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowl….

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner..

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river ….

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston..

Architecture is art, nothing else..

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to som….

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper..

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space..

Architecture is the art of how to waste space..

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody..

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep..

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set stand….

I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like th….

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of ….

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 ….

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy t….

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art..

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not onl….