Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.