It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

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.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?