I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

My favorite project is always the next one.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

Love doesn't make the world go 'round

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.