Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Imitate nothing except principle.

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

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.