My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don't use it much because I'm allergic to garlic.

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.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.'

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

I think of language as our first music.