We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Each material has its own message.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.