Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

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.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.