We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.