There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.