We Do Pretty Much Whatever We Want

The Practice Of Architecture Is The Most Delightful Of All Pursuits. Also, Next To Agriculture, It Is The Most Necessary To Man. One Must Eat, One Must Have Shelter. Next To Religious Worship Itself, It Is The Spiritual Handmaiden Of Our Deepest Convictions.

American Megalomania Is Largely Responsible For The Growth Of The Skyscraper School.

Ninety-eight Percent Are Boxes, Which Tells Me That A Lot Of People Are In Denial. We Live And Work In Boxes. People Don't Even Notice That. Most Of What's Around Us Is Banal. We Live With It. We Accept It As Inevitable. People Say, "this Is The World The Way It Is, And Don't Bother Me." Then When Somebody Does Something Different, Real Architecture, The Push-back Is Amazing. People Resist It. At First It's New And Scary.

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.

[evolution] Doesn't Mean God-guided, Gradual Creation. It Means Unguided, Purposeless Change. The Darwinian Theory Doesn't Say That God Created Slowly. It Says That Naturalistic Evolution Is The Creator, And So God Had Nothing To Do With It.