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

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.