Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that’s the distinction.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

And when I’m writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don’t necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I’m working on, because...

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

When you’re very young and you learn something – a fact, a piece of information, whatever – it doesn’t connect to anything.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I’m trying to avoid doing something else I’m supposed to be doing. You know, you’re working on something. You get bugged, or you lose...

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Space is the breath of art.

But I don’t see why we have to take a central hall, for instance, and use in it a sculpture or painting. I think it detracts, somehow.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what...

You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

However, India is a democracy and they deeply believe in democracy and we feel that it would not be good to overwhelm them with propaganda.