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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.