Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

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.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

This storm is dangerous

I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.