The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.