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.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.