“Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light”

“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.”

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

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

“the city is cold and hard like that bike I stole from your front yard.”

“He looked out the open window. So this was what it was like. He looked through the green foliage, over the ocean, and felt around him the heat massing in the air, the current of coolness running through it, taking form in the thunderheads. He saw the black energy becoming creatured from a hundred kilometers away, roaring toward shore, feeding on itself. On the headland, trees bending to absorb the weight of the forward wind.”

“...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...”