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

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.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

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

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

You Change, the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

And nobody had told them that they were short on time.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.