Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?