“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“I dont want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now Im none of those things, and...”

“The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!”

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world e...”

“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind the mind as machine and the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and tran...”

“Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.”

“For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of la...”