"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved."

"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land."

"bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

"This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed."

"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."

"Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."