A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

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.

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

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.