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

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?