The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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.

Silence is the most expensive to buy.

I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.

The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form.