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

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" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Dullness is the enemy. "

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does? "

" I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. "

" 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 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. "

" If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. "

" 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. "

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

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. "

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

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

" Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going. "

" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" 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. "

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