But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

Briefs need limitations and invitations

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.

Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.