We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

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.

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.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.