"You say to brick" says architect Louis Kahn

"You say to brick, 'What do you want, brick?' Brick says to you, 'I like an arch.'"

Other "Lou-language": "Need is so many bananas. Need is a ham sandwich. But desire is insatiable and you can never know what it is."

--from Dwight Garner's review of You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser, NYTimes, March 8, 2017