The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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 was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …”Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."