The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.