Margaret Anderson

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.