A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.