The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

You see, but you do not observe.

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

Where sanity is there God is.

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

The only weapon I've got is comedy

Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.