New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

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

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.