Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it’s really difficult.

My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.