I. M. Pei

I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.