“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.”

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”

“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”

“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the pl...”

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic masters, for we have seen that the rectangle of ...”

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live a life that was strange in many ways, but also much the same as anywhere...”