You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago.

I always just want to move along to the next step.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.