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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have been crying, " she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'