Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.

If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction, A chaotic display of imperfection.

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.