“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing”

“The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.”

“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.”

“Architecture is what nature cannot make.Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.”

“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.”

“In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.”