The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

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