When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

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.

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

We were thinkers not talkers.We were problems not solutions.We were heroes of the dark, villains with a spark.

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.