It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A. M. , would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it