Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

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 don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

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