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

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.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Each material has its own message.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.