We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

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.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.