A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.