"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."
"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
