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

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.