I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

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.

Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

I have trouble controlling my base emotions when the moon is full, but anger is the hardest for me. If I'm mad, I turn into the Hulk. Except I'm not green.

We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

The best part was seeing fans and making new ones. I loved going to new places. I really had the time of my life out there.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.