The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

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

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.