To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account