I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Treat everyone like it's still your first job and that we're all just happy to be here.