People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

You've got to like the people you work with.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.