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

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" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. "

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

" Dullness is the enemy. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" 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. "

" 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. "