I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.