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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

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.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.