Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

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.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.