Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

You don't pay a cent to dream so why dream of becoming king's guard when you can dream of being a King

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.