Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

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

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

We have met the Alien and it is us.

I'm so official, all I need is a whistle.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.