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

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" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

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

" Dullness is the enemy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You cannot not know history. "

" 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. "

" 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. "