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" Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. "

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" I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? "

" I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world. "

" I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. "

" 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 twice. "

" Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in. "

" 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. "

" There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction. "

" The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds. "

" I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

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

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "

" The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point. "

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

" There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. "

" I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. "

" I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. "

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

" In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study. "

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "

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

" It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful. "

" I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. "

" There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. "

" Dullness is the enemy. "