Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.