“I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?”  – Philip Johnson

“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.”
― Louis I. Kahn

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience

“A house can have integrity, just like a person,’ said Roark, ‘and just as seldom.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”