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

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.

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

I don't think their voices are going to change at all. And it's what Democrats have always been saying. We are stronger together, but we're going to fight like heck if anybody tries to divide us.

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.