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.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

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.