Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.