We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

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.

One war only breeds another.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?