“I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.” — Philip Johnson Quote

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Dullness is the enemy.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.