It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

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

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

All men have life, but only few men know its value.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.