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

The room within is the great fact about the building.

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.