I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

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.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.