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

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

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.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.