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.

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

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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.

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.

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.