If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

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.

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.