The kind of influence you want is a much deeper influence. It's like empowerment. Things are like this, but what if they were like that? What happens….

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money..

There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused h….

I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside..

[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or mu….

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fict….

What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do oth….

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language..

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone think….

Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world ….

I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because y….

It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that….

When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can h….

Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lea….

I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I eve….

What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the vie….

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole..

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along….

Architecture is not about space but about time..

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm sub….