I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

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.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.