I don't want to be that bitter dude. Everyone finds their own special experience with the city no matter what.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
I didn't want to lose the human scale.
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York. . . had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace. . . beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell