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" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You cannot not know history. "

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

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

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

" 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. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

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

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

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

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

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "