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.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.