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

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“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.”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you cant go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people w...”