Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

Stubbornness is not firmness.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

History is never surprising after it happens.

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.