A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

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.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.