Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

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.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.