The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.
Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939 (ed. Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1992)