No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.