With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.