Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.

I am what I am.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.