A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth.

The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.