Philip Johnson

The future of architecture is culture.

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

You cannot not know history.

I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon's Gymnastix in Houston, and that's how I got started.

Buildings are forms of performances.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.